Alicia Sykes
Posts
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- ├ SvelteKit 1.0 - Building a Blog that fetches from RSS 🦄
- ├ 20 Amazing Collections for Self-Taught Developers 🎓
- ├ CLI tools you can't live without 🔧
- ├ 20 Git Commands you (probably) didn't know 🧙♂️
- ├ Super Useful CSS Resources 🌈
- ├ Generate Pretty Code / App Screenshots 📸
- ├ 50+ Awesome Dev Tool Tips 🔥
- ├ Fun with console.log() 💿
- ├ GitHub Markdown Tricks 🐙
- ├ Comparison of Private / Secure Emai Providers 📬
- ├ One-Line Web Server 🖥️
- ├ NPM Dependency Security Best Practices 📦
- ├ Dashy - A Self-Hosted Home Lab Dashboard 🚀
- ├ Using Espanso to boost Efficiency 🚤
- ├ My Life in Months 🗓️
- ├ Errors and Solutions 🤬➡️🥳
- ├ Quick How-To Guides 💫
- ├ SSH Tarpit with EndleSsh 🪤🕳️
- ├ Pimping up Your DuckDuckGo Search Results 💄
- ├ My Server Setup ⚙️
- ├ Spelling Auto-Correct System ✏️❌
- ├ Top 25 Raspberry Pi Projects 🥧
- ├ My Top 50 Windows Apps 🖥
- ├ [REFERENCE] Using Variable Fonts in CSS 🔤
- ├ Try. 💯
- ├ Pi Zero Tor-Routed Access Point 📶
- ├ [HOW-TO] Mullvad VPN using WireGuard on OPNsense 👁️🗨️
- ├ Custom Styling for Listed Blog 💅
- ├ Epic Internet Stuff! ✨
- ├ Fun with Real-Time Data 🌠
- ├ [REFERENCE] InfoSec Abbreviations 🔡
- ├ [REFERENCE] Wireshark Display Filters 💻
- ├ My Top 50 Android Apps 📱
- ├ [QUICK-TIP] Git Submodules
- ├ Introduction to Digital Privacy & Security 🔐
- ├ [HOW-TO] Remove all node_modules folders 🗑️
- ├ keep-mouse-movin.sh 🖱️
- ├ [HOW-TO] Compile & Install Software on Arch 🏗️
- ├ key-mirror.ts 🪞
- ├ React Grid System ⚛️
- ├ Fave YouTube Chanels 📼
- ├ [HOW-TO] Use SSH for Server Authentication 🔓
- ├ [HOW-TO] Operate the SharkJack 🦈
- ├ My worry about the future of Keybase 😟
- ├ Expressing my Gratitude to the Universe 🌌
- ├ AHT GPG Public Key 🔑
- ├ [HOW-TO] Enable/ Disable Pi-Hole from CLI 🥧
- └ Hello World 👋
Projects
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│ dashy 🚀 A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!12,912Vue.js
983110MIT445 mb - ├
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│ personal-security-checklist 🔒 A compiled checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy in 2023 12,5208892554 mb - ├
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│ web-check 🕵️♂️ All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website5,744TypeScript
4066MIT19 mb - ├
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│ awesome-privacy 🦄 A curated list of privacy & security-focused software and services 4,81019547Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal35 mb - ├
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│ portainer-templates 🚢 400+ 1-click Portainer app templates872Python
729MIT1 mb - ├
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│ AdGuardian-Term 🛡️ Terminal-based, real-time traffic monitoring and statistics for your AdGuard Home instance689Rust
255MIT3 mb - ├
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│ twitter-sentiment-visualisation 🌍 Sentiment analysis over real-time social media data, rendering live charts to visualise trends184CoffeeScript
72815 mb - ├
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│ dotfiles 🧰 ~ • My Đotfiles167Shell
161 mb - ├
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│ wapalyzer 🌐 Identify the technologies powering any website. This is a fork of the now deleted Wappalyzer project by @AliasIO and community.137JavaScript
153GNU General Public v3.072 mb - ├
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│ email-comparison 📬 A quick comparison of private and / or secure email providers68TypeScript
184MIT2 mb - ├
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│ espanso-config 🦄 My configuration files for the Espanso text expander61Shell
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│ brewfile 🍺 My list of packages to be installed on MacOS via Homebrew, for the ultimate dev setup58Ruby
17MIT - ├
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│ awesome-selfhosted FORK 🖥️ A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers56Makefile
1315 mb - ├
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│ my-website ✨ My personal homepage. A developer portfolio site that aggregates all your projects, blog posts, and stats in one place55Svelte
1412 mb - ├
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│ Lissy93 🥳 Hello World! 53361257 mb - ├
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│ minimal-terminal-prompt 📟 A clean PS1 bash prompt, showing user, host, pathname and git status41Shell
82MIT - ├
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│ hasami-shogi 🀄 2-player tactical iOS game: Based on the traditional Japanese board game, Hasami Shogi (Swift V1.0)31Swift
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│ awesome-osint FORK :scream: A curated list of amazingly awesome OSINT 2961 mb - ├
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│ anti-theft-charge 🔋 Safely charge your phone in public places without the worry of it being stolen28Kotlin
4MIT20 mb - └
sentiment-analysis
🎈 A Node.js AFINN-111 based sentiment analysis module
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CoffeeScript
7239 mb
Contact
About
Just your average dev...

I'm Alicia, a London-based software engineer.
I have a particular interest in privacy-respecting software, as well as security. I've carried out a few audits, and authored the initial versions of Personal Security Checklist and Awesome Privacy.
I enjoy going to (and sometimes winning!) hackathons. And if you're London-based, you'll probably have bumped into me at a tech meetup.
I love Linux, and (imo) have a neat dotfiles setup which I'm always tweaking. And I have a small homelab, that I'm using to learn more about system administration, and host my own services to (attempt to) escape big tech. I made dashboard app for it.
For work, I'm a principal software engineer at AND.Digital, where I work across various client projects, help to upskill and mentor junior and mid-level developers and ensure that the code we're delivering is the best it can be.
Away from the keyboard, I like sports, hanging out with friends, and going to Church.
Tech Stack
Usually the tools I use for the job, depend on the job. There's no one-size fits all, and as such I'm always trying out new technologies, and constantly learning.
The following technologies are the ones I'm most familiar with, and I've linked to code that I've written with each.
Hover over a technology, to see projects built using it